guns, gold and glory...

today, the new bend biathlon club hosted it's first clinic... led mainly by the head coach... so i went and helped set that up for the participants... this was dryland... so mostly just shooting, and at the end, we ran some of the kids around so that they could feel the feeling of shooting when winded... i shot, but i didn't do the run and shoot as it was pretty late by that point. mostly, i just made sure rifles were pointed in the same directions... the guns were sweet... a couple of Anschutz, and a Baikal... I was pretty poor in my first Go, but went 5/5 on my second prone attempt, and like 3/5 standing the second time... need work though... it's pretty tricky, it's mostly about trigger pull... ridiculously hot.... like 65 degrees (yes, that's ridiculously hot here)

came home, and took a nap, then went for a 17 mile ride (nice and easy, just to work out the kinks) then went for a 25 minute 'fitness run'. ya know, there are those things near my house, chin-up/dip/situp... there were 6 total, so i'd do a station, run a lap, etc... pretty pleasant... when i get my new bb gun (no compass in the stock, but the vegas odds do have me at 1:2 to 'shoot my eye out kid) (and it's actually going to be a high quality pellet gun) i'll throw that in there for fun...

friday, kids had practice, i ran with them since there was no school that day and it was pretty low-key. just an easy scrimmage cause the weather was so nice.... by easy i mean, no structure, just goofing off on a lazy day... i ran hard, and even dove... first time i'd played w /them this year, probably the last for a while: too much value in full time coaching, too many reader comments about me being Kramer from seinfeld taking Karate w/ 10 year olds... oh, and ski'd 20km friday morning, and then spent 1.25 hours helping dig a biathlon target entombed in 6 inches of ice... chopping with an axe and a spike... then ran some errands on the road bike...

tommorrow, long ski, a run, and i might play some city league pick-up... it's super nice weather, but the field is small, and it's kind of cluster something with a little league game going on in the endzone, and 40 people trying to play 7v7 on a 55 yad field... supposedly city league is coming up, but i'm having a hard time getting fired up for the 4-peat... i may just go in the draft, but i'd rather play a couple tournaments, play in an occasional more competetive pick-up game, and train up for summer tourneys (like run/intervals/sprints)... besides...there are still oh, 2 months of good skiing, and i'd like to focus on that...

so some general goals for the next year of training.
Frisbee: While weather permits 3-7 days of throwing. 3-4 days of sport specific running (i.e., make sure to do my high knees). Tourneys, uh, Maybe the Local Gandy goose in a month. Weather dependent, i might walk out on saturday and pickup w/ a team... got to make sure there is not a HS tourney i have to coach at that weekend. Attend Potlatch, Play fall series. Continue to improve.

Skiing: Improve. Curently I'm a 'competent recreational racer.' I'd like to improve on that. Focus on going fast on flats and downhills (technically challenging), continue to improve technique accross board, and fitness. I have some specific goals like 28 min in a 10 km, but more significantly, i'd like to get w/i fewer percentage points of the winners...

Running: Sub 18 5k. I know that's not that impressive in the grand scheme, but it'll be pretty good for me... my best time trial was around 19:11 for 5km last year...

biking: no real goals, just participate in some bike races and duathlons...

oh, food....

meager food day... plowman's platter, salad, smoked salmon, good cheddar, apple, olives, cherry tomatoes, good piece of bread... and a guinness... after all, it's st. Patrick's day...